How sweet and awful is the place

25 Jun

by Isaac Watts

First published in his Hymns and Sacred Songs, 1707 (edition 1709, Book iii., No. 13) 8.6.8.6

4. ’Twas the same love that spread the feast
That sweetly drew us in
Else we had still refused to taste
And perished in our sin

5. Pity the nations, O our God
Constrain the earth to come
Send Thy victorious Word abroad
And bring the strangers home

6. We long to see Thy churches full
That all the chosen race
May with one voice and heart and soul
Sing Thy redeeming grace

1. How sweet and aweful is the place
With Christ within the doors
While everlasting love displays
The choicest of her stores

2. While all our hearts and all our songs
Join to admire the feast
Each of us cry with thankful tongues
“Lord, why was I a guest?

3. Why was I made to hear Thy voice
And enter while there’s room
When thousands make a wretched choice
And rather starve than come?

Verse 6 might be worth praying / singing daily.

Thank you Mr Watts.

Andy Fenton